2:00PM Water Cooler 6/16/2023 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I wish I could add more orts and scraps on Covid, but I must hustle along and finish up a review of Neal…
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/14/2023 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, this Water Cooler will be truncated, as I must finish up two other posts. Talk amongst yourselves! –lambert UPDATE The first, on Amazonia.…
The Unsung Heroes of the “Children Lost in the Amazon” Story: Amazonia’s Gardeners | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. The story of how four Huitoto children survived for 40 days in Colombia’s Amazon jungle after their small plane crashed on May 1 after leaving…
Links 6/16/2023 | naked capitalism
Five planets will be lined up in space Saturday. How to see the ‘planetary alignment’ USA Today Catfish Noodling 101: A Beginner’s Guide Field and Stream High Inflation is Officially…
The UK’s Tory Government, With Labour’s Help, Just Took Another Big Step Toward Outlawing Peaceful Political Protest | naked capitalism
“The move – which uses secondary legislation to bring the powers into force – violates the constitutional principle of the separation of powers because the measures have already been rejected…
Fast Food Suppliers Contribute to Increases in BMI and Decreases in IQ | naked capitalism
By Sara Abrahamsson, Postdoctoral researcher at Norwegian Institute Of Public Health, Aline Bütikofer , Professor at Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), and Krzysztof Karbownik, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics at…
Why Student Debt Is So High | naked capitalism
Yves here. Key data on student debt show how rapidly it has grown, so that it has become the largest type of non-mortgage consumer borrowing. Tom Neuburger explains the dynamics,…
Correcting the Record on the Origin Story of Beowulf’s Trillion Dollar Coin | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Origin stories are often contested, but the origin of the Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin is undisputed: A blogger going by the handle Beowulf, whose real…
Canada’s TC Energy laying off staff – Reuters News Agency
Economy 06 June 2023, 8:23 pm 1 minute By Reuters News Agency Reuters exclusively reported that Canada’s energy infrastructure company TC Energy was planning to cut jobs, just a week…
Links 6/15/2023 | naked capitalism
Evidence of 1-Billion-Year-Old ‘Lost World’ of Microbes Discovered beneath Australian Outback Scientific American The idea of “holobionts” represents a paradigm shift in biology The Economist (Rev Kev). Fascinating. As is…